Not often, recently: AWS had zero major incidents in the last 90 days of StatusBird's independent 2-minute monitoring, with 100.0% availability and a A+ reliability grade.
Short-term numbers only tell part of the story, so below is the full data, how AWS compares to its category, and how to track future incidents without watching a status page all day.
AWS outage history: the last 90 days
| Metric (90 days, as of July 2026) | Value |
|---|---|
| Availability | 100.0% |
| Reliability grade | A+ |
| Major incidents | 0 |
| Total major-outage downtime | 0 minutes |
| Average incident duration | n/a |
| Most recent major incident | None in the last 90 days |
| Checks in window | 43,605 |
Among the 4 infrastructure services StatusBird monitors, AWS currently holds the top reliability position for the 90-day window.
Does a AWS outage affect your store?
The blast radius of an AWS outage depends on what you run there and which region is affected. If your storefront is hosted on AWS, your entire site can go down or slow to a crawl: pages fail to load, images break if they are served from S3 or CloudFront, and backend APIs error out. Even if your store is hosted elsewhere, a major AWS incident often degrades multiple third-party tools at once, so you may see your email platform, analytics, fulfillment software, and support desk all misbehave simultaneously. Payment providers and platforms with AWS dependencies can see elevated errors even when your own hosting is fine.
How can I track AWS outages?
Three ways, from slowest to fastest. AWS's official status page at health.aws.amazon.com/health/status is authoritative but often acknowledges incidents late. StatusBird's live AWS status page reflects independent checks every 2 minutes. Fastest is an alert: StatusBird sends SMS, email, or Slack notifications the moment AWS's status changes, so you find out before customer emails do.
Frequently asked questions
My store is on Shopify, so does an AWS outage even affect me?
Possibly, but indirectly. Your storefront itself will likely stay up, but many of the apps and services around it, such as email platforms, review widgets, fulfillment tools, and analytics, may run on AWS and degrade during a major incident. Expect partial breakage rather than a full outage.
How do I know if a problem is AWS or my own site?
Check the AWS Health Dashboard for active incidents in your region and compare with independent reports like outage trackers. If multiple unrelated services you use are failing at the same time, a cloud provider incident is the likely common cause rather than your own configuration.
How this data is measured
StatusBird checks AWS's status every 2 minutes, around the clock, independently of the vendor. The availability figure counts major and critical outages only; minor degradation is excluded so numbers are not skewed by vendors that report small blips near-continuously. Grades run from A+ to F. See the live numbers on the AWS reliability page and current status on the AWS status page, or browse all 84 service grades.
Know before your customers do
StatusBird monitors AWS and 83 other services online stores depend on, plus your own storefront, every 2 minutes. When something goes down you get an SMS, email, or Slack alert with plain-English context, usually before the official status page catches up. Start monitoring free, no card required for the free plan.